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“If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.”
William Cowper“When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe and reverence it inspired in him would have made him bow himself down and worship it but for the happy fact that his mind was illumined with the knowledge of the truth, he is but saying what many feel without in most cases recognizing the emotion for what it is—the sense of the supernatural in nature.”
William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago“Man disavows, and Deity disowns me;Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths allBolted against me.Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers,Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors,I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentenceWorse than Abiram's.Him the vindictive rod of angry JusticeSent quick and howling to the centre headlong;I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, amBuried above ground.”
William Cowper, The Poetical Works Of William Cowper“God moves in mysterious waysHis wonders to performs”
William Cowper, The Poetical Works Of William Cowper“Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urnThrows up a steamy column and the cupsThat cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,So let us welcome peaceful ev'ning in.”
William Cowper, The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”
William Cowper“Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.”
William Cowper“They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.”
William Cowper“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
William Cowper“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”
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